List of holdings:
Bound volumes of newspapers 1854-1969
Church Records
Cemetery Records
Vital Statistics
Family Records
Some Bible Records
Census Records
Histories
Veteran's Lists
Vital Stats from Newspapers published outside the City of Oneida
City and County Directories

Research Policy is as follows:

The Madison County Historical Society?s Mary King Research Library has many items to assist the researcher interested in discovering his or her own family?s history or learning about local history. The library also contains vital statistic files of marriage and death notices abstracted from the society?s newspaper collection from 1854-1931. The researcher also has available, records culled from family bibles, others? research and gathered into family folders, church and cemetery records, local histories, and city and county directories that span the years, 1879-1972. In addition, there are Atlases and microfilms of both Federal and State censuses from 1800-1920.

As a policy, the Madison County Historical Society charges $10.00 for research requests by mail or email, which includes four copies, each additional copy is $.25 per page.

The research library is open to the public Monday-Friday, 9-4 year round, appointments are recommended. There is a $5.00 fee for in-house use of the library for nonmembers and no cost for members. Photocopies are $.25 per page. (Please inquire about membership applications).

Fryer Memorial Museum has an extensive genealogical collection. With the researcher in mind, all names mentioned in the collection have been placed on 3 x 5 cards alphabetized and filed. The genealogical collection contains newspapers, scrapbooks, Bible records, family histories, obituaries and donated genealogies. Cemetery records for Madison County and lists of burials in neighboring counties are also in the museums holdings.
Fryer Memorial Museum is an all volunteer organization. There is no charge to use the facilities, but donations are always welcome.

About the NYGenWeb Project.

A message was sent out over the GEN-NYS-L list in June 1996 asking if anyone would be interested starting a NYS GENWEB page similiar to a highly successful project underway in Kentucky. Many people expressed an interest in this idea. About the same time, Jeff Murphy, coordinator of the KYGENWEB, decided to go national with the idea, and out of that grew the USGENWEB project, and the NYGENWEB project.

At the same time, volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page. Contact the volunteer shown on the county page off the main New York page - http://www.nygenweb.net/ if you have a desire to add your data to the database.